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• Getting Started.
• File, configure and manage traffic monitoring.
  • About, display information about software and the computer it's running on.
  • Configure, set software key, snmp, threshold settings and configure which areas of the network are to be monitored.
    • Overview, understand the configuration hierarchy.
    • Extra, additional configuration settings.
    • Preferences, the global.prefs file.
    • Control, start and stop software processes.
    • Status, display software performance statistics and status.
    • Logs, display server log files.
    • Forwarding, forward measurements to a remote computer.
    • Users, set user priveleges and passwords.
  • Events, display and analyze events.
    • Summary, summarize recent events by event type.
    • List, list recent events.
  • Traffic, display and analyze network status and traffic.
    • Status, navigate through the site, viewing the status of each device and interface.
    • Interfaces, identify the busiest interfaces in the network.
    • Circles, see how traffic flows are distributed across the site.
    • Trend, trend interface counters, top sources, protocols and connections.
  • Signatures, manage security rules and identify compromised hosts.
    • Summary, summarize status by rule class.
    • Alerts, list recent rule matches.
    • Hosts, show hosts violating rules.
    • Packets, show packets captured when rules trigger.
    • Rules, show rule definitions.
    • Configure, upload new rules.
  • Report, report on network traffic.
    • Overview, a brief description of the Traffic Sentinel reporting system.
    • View, display reports that have been saved by the scheduler.
    • Run, run queries and examine results.
    • Edit, create new reports that can be scheduled or run.
      • Customize, edit fields in report section.
        • Time Interval, select time intervals.
        • Filtering, enter filter expressions.
      • Templates, add new report templates.
    • Schedule, select reports to be periodically run by the scheduler.
    • Script, run custom query script.
    • Scripting API, scripting language reference.
      • Global
      • Query
      • Table
      • Network
      • SNMP
      • Report
      • Chart
      • Views, database views and their fields.
      • events
      • rttraffic
      • rtcounters
      • historytrmx
      • historycounters
  • Map, display network maps.
    • AS Path, show AS paths.
    • Layer 3, show map of routers and subnets.
    • Layer 2, show map of switches and their uplinks.
  • Search, search for hosts, devices, protocols and paths though the network.
    • Host, find hosts based on their address. Information returned includes the location of the host in the network.
    • Agent/Interface, search for network devices.
    • Protocol, find protocol by number or name.
    • ASN, search for AS and AS Path information.
    • Path, find path between two hosts.
    • Report, search for reports containing keywords.